As covered in Croakey’s TOO MUCH of a Good Thing series, overtreatment and overdiagnosis are problems which undermine the goals of health care by causing harm and diverting resources from ad... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Around the world, health authorities are turning to telehealth as an important plank in responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak (see tweets at the bottom of this... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The staff and management committee of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra), and members of the national, state and territory boards involved... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: More than 37,000 people have signed an online petition protesting against a Medicare compliance initiative that critics fear will deter holistic treatment for people... Read more
Desperately needed reforms to laws around illicit drug use have been rejected by the NSW Government. The reforms were proposed by the NSW Special Commission into the Drug ‘Ice’, which report... Read more
Last week at Croakey’s rotational Twitter account @WePublicHealth, Dr Jorja Collins, an adjunct lecturer and early career researcher in nutrition, dietetics and food at Monash University sha... Read more
Never mind the sports rorts affair, what about the politicisation of wider health spending? This investigation by Jennifer Doggett identifies many areas across the health portfolio where lar... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As flagged at Croakey last week, the justifiable dismay at the failure of progress revealed in the recent Closing the Gap report, was tempered by cautious optimism t... Read more
Social prescribing is popular with both doctors and patients but the infrastructure and funding are lacking, according to a new report calling for the practice to become a routine part of pr... Read more
A recent speech by Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) board member Geoff Summerhayes has re-ignited concerns about the viability of the private health insurance (PHI) sector a... Read more
